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Though in some ways they're very different, Dredd shares a similar intense pacing that relentlessly progresses throughout the entire film. It also captures a bleak, dystopian hellscape that is very Mad Max-adjacent.
Dredd has outstanding performances by Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, and Lena Headey, and was arguably the directorial debut of Alex Garland (Civil War, Ex Machina), who should have received the credit, according to Karl Urban. Garland also wrote it. It never succeeded in the box office despite solid reviews, in no small part because they only showed it in theaters in 3D to promote the format. Unfortunately, this choice wound up hurting ticket sales. Dredd's poor numbers doomed any follow ups, which could have built on the excellent foundation that Dredd created.
Though it was made on a modest $45 mil budget, it is a tense and intelligent action movie that creates such a bleak, suffocating, and claustrophobic atmosphere that one could make an argument that there's an element of the horror genre to it. The character Judge Dredd was also an inspiration for RoboCop. The writing respects the audience and characters as well as the source material, and it's a tragedy that a follow up film was never made.
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Dredd has outstanding performances by Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, and Lena Headey, and was arguably the directorial debut of Alex Garland (Civil War, Ex Machina), who should have received the credit, according to Karl Urban. Garland also wrote it. It never succeeded in the box office despite solid reviews, in no small part because they only showed it in theaters in 3D to promote the format. Unfortunately, this choice wound up hurting ticket sales. Dredd's poor numbers doomed any follow ups, which could have built on the excellent foundation that Dredd created.
Though it was made on a modest $45 mil budget, it is a tense and intelligent action movie that creates such a bleak, suffocating, and claustrophobic atmosphere that one could make an argument that there's an element of the horror genre to it. The character Judge Dredd was also an inspiration for RoboCop. The writing respects the audience and characters as well as the source material, and it's a tragedy that a follow up film was never made.
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